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National sales tax: Revenue estimates for fiscal year 1987
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1986
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A national sales tax has been frequently discussed as a possible new tax source to reduce projected large budgetary deficits. This report contains estimates that a national sales tax with a comprehensive tax base could yield up to $22.44 billion for each 1 percent levied, based on data for fiscal year 1987.
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Summary and analysis of the education amendments of 1984, p.l. 98-511
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1984
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The Education Amendments of 1984 extends and amends a variety of Federal education programs and would establish other new Federal education activities. This paper provides a summary and analysis of these amendments including provisions regarding the adult education, bilingual education, impact aid, women's educational equity, Indian education, emergency immigrant education, and higher education student financial assistance programs.
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Magnet schools assistance: Federal aid to desegregating school districts
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1985
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This paper provides an overview of the provisions, the background and legislative history, and current status of the new Magnet Schools Assistance program. This program will support magnet schools (those offering a special curriculum to attract voluntarily students from different racial backgrounds) in desegregating school districts. Current issues affecting the program include debate over a prohibition against using any of its funds for magnet school courses the substance of which is "secular humanism," and unsuccessful efforts by the Reagan Administration to rescind its FY 1985 funding.
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The youth sub-minimum wage: An overview of recent consideration
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1984
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For at least the past fifteen years, legislation to create a reduced wage option for employers of youth workers (a sub-minimum wage) has been more-or-less continuously before the Congress. New proposals to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (as amended) to provide for a general youth sub-minimum wage have been introduced in the 97th and 98th Congresses. This paper presents a brief overview of recent legislative consideration of the sub-minimum wage issue.
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The "Fitzgerald Act" and the federal role in apprenticeship training: Recent interest and current initiatives
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1985
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The Fitzgerald Act (National Apprenticeship Act) of 1937 serves as the charter for the Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training in the Department of Labor. It also provides the legal framework for the Federal Government's involvement in apprenticeship training programs. Briefly, this paper examines the evolution of apprentice training in America, the provisions of the Fitzgerald Act, and recent legislative interest in apprentice training.
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Legal document.
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Rectangular vellum, 30.5 x 11.7 cm, written in Latin, 7 lines, brown ink, in a nice, legible hand, flourished monogram on the 2cm fold at bottom, from which hangs Mocenigo’s substantial lead seal. Ink very slightly faded in places, three 1cm holes affecting text, else good.
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Letters of Charles II ('le Mauvais'), King of Navarre to the Vicomte d'Avranches instructing him to reward Jehan le Roussel dit Friquet 'aide de nostre cuisine' for his services, both in his office and in other ways, with the sum of 30 livres tournois &c. Cherbourg; 28 April 1370
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1370
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272mm. by 102mm., letter in French from King Charles II of Navarre to the Vicomte d'Avranches, instructing him to reward the bearer (Jehan le Roussel dit Friquet), countersigned by one Froissart, dated 28 April 1370, 7 lines in dark brown ink, seal and tag missing, slightly trimmed on right-hand edge, in fine red morocco gilt-tooled binding
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